Herrmann Abby


Unit 1: Up and About

Chapter 1

1.1: Johnny Tremain is the boss of the attic, and the apprentices. He has to get everyone up in the morning and make sure everything is together and running as smooth as possible.

1.2: Dove does not want a younger apprentice to rule over him. Dove and Johnny do not get along. Dove is also jealous of Johnny.

Chapter 3

3.1: Johnny is very serious about his job. He wants to make sure everyone is doing what they need to be doing. Johnny wants to be a sliversmith in the future.

Chapter 4

4.1: Johnny is working while Mr. Lapham was sleeping. Dove and Dusty went to go swiming while Johnny is working. This shows that Johnny is commited to his job and does not get distracted easily.

Chapter 6

6.1: The crest of the Lytes looks like an eye rising up from the sea, and rays of lights streamed from the cup. On one side was engraved the crest of Lytes.


Unit 2: The Pride of Your Power

Chapter 1

1.1: Johnny turned down Paul Revere's offer because if it wasn't for him working, nothing would ever get done. They'd just about starve.

Chapter 3

3.1: Johnny burnt his hand on the furnace, but it wasn't his fault. Dove grabbed a cracked crucible. He thought if the crucible gave way and the hot silver did spill all over the top of the furnace he could blame Johnny for it, and he would look like a fool. Johnny took the cracked crucible, put in it silver ignots, and set it on top of the furnace. His wax models had been left to close to the furnace. Some of the beeswax had melted and run over the floor. The silver by the furnace had started to melt aswell. Johnny jumped for it, but slipped and fell from the melted wax from the models. His hand was outstretched and it hit the top of the furnace, it burned so badly he couldn't even feel it.

Chapter 5

5.1: Johnny's life changed enormously after his accident. He cannot work like he used to. Mrs. Lapham started calling him names like 'lazy good-for-nothing,' a 'lug-a-bed,' and 'worthless limb of Satan.' Mr. Lapham told Johnny that he cannot keep teaching a cripple-hand boy to be a silversmith.


Unit 3: An Earth of Brass

Chapter 1

1.1: Rab reacts intelligently and tells Johnny "that is quite a recent burn", but Rab does not turn away. Johnny wants to be friends with Rab. He sees good qualities in Rab, he sees everything, but says nothing.

Chapter 3

3.1: Johnny saw himself becoming an upstanding citizen through his apprenticeship as a silversmith. Gold, silver, and brass all had importance to the wealthy people of Boston. He was unwilling to become an unskilled worker because of his accident.


Unit 4: The Rising Eye

Chapter 1

1.1: Merchant Lyte is arrogant, he only cares for himself, he is sly, mean, and dishonest. When Johnny met him, he thought Mr. Lyte looked very unhealthy.

Chapter 2

2.1: The Whigs believed that what England was doing to the colonies was tyranny. The colonies were being taxed without representation. The Tories thought the American colonies were too weak to survives without England's help. They respected the government of England and thought their differences could be settled with time and patience.

Chapter 5

5.1: An accused person found guilty could be fined, whipped, set in stocks, sent to the gallows which is death by hanging.

5.2: Cilla Lapham testified that she had seen the cup in Johnny's pocession in July before the August date of the theft.

Unit 5: The Boston Observer

Chapter 2

2.1: Johnny's responsibilities are to deliver newspapers to Boston and the surrounding towns. Johnny also past on

political news from the Whigs to the people in the country.

Chapter 3, 4

3,4.1: Johnny enjoys his new life, although he misses Cilla and Isannah. Mrs. Lapham would never allow him to be idle, but

Mrs. Lorne allows him to sit and read for as long as he likes.

3,4.2: When a person is told they will not amount to anything many times, that person will eventually start believing them.

3,4.3: Rab's suggestion was to think before you speak. Count to ten before you speak negatively about someone.

3,4.4: The club met in secret and came up with ways to spread the idea of rebellion against England around Boston.


Unit 6: Salt Water Tea

Chapter 5

5.1: Johnny had to learn to use an axe with his left hand for the Tea Party, because he can no longer use his right hand.


Unit 7: The Fiddler's Bill

Chapter 1

1.1: The bill for the tea was much heavier than anyone expected, Boston was thrown into a paroxysm of anger and despair.

1.2: The punishment united the often jealous, often indifferent, separate colonies, as the Tea Party itself had not.

Chapter 3

3.2: Johnny feels sorry for Dove, but also Johnny might get valuable information from him. Dove is taking care of the Colonel's horse, and may know when the British are going to attack.

Chapter 4

4.1: Johnny's feelings toward Mrs. Lapham have changed drasticly. He is now old enough to realize how valiantly she had fought for those under her care. Poor woman, how she had struggled and worked for that good, plentiful food, the clean shirts her boys had worn, the scrubbed floors, and polished brass. No, she had never been the ogress he had thought she was a year ago. There was never a single day that Mrs. Lapham was not the first one up in the morning.

Chapter 5

5.1: Mrs. Bessie is Sam Adam's spy in the Lyte household.

Unit 8: A World To Come

Chapter 1

1.1: The Lytes were being driven out of Milton by the people of the village, or Whigs, becuase they were Tories. They also supported the British.

Chapter 2

2.1: The Bible reveals that Johnny is a Lyte. His mother was a neice to merchant Lyte. One thing Johnny does not understand is why his mother's name was scratched off the family record.

2.2: This statement refers to the coming of the war. The Lytes would never return to the country house in Milton. It would be the end of British rule . They would lose the War and America would have a new beginning.

Chapter 5

5.1: James Otis proposes freedom from tyranny, and natural rights that God had given to every man.


Unit 9: The Scarlet Deluge

Chapter 1

1.1: The scarlet deluge is a flood of British soldiers uniformed in red.

Chapter 3

3.1: Johnny is becoming a responsible young adult. He is willing to take chances that will help the revolution.

3.2: The mintue men are preparing for war by making their own bullets, and also their own cartridges to fit their own gun.

Chapter 5

5.1: When Johnny looks into "the face of death" he never once doubted his physical courage, but now he did.


Unit 10: "Disperse, Ye Rebels"

Chapter 1

1.1: Companies were to be taken off duty until further orders. They were to be taught some new evolutions. Lieutenant Stranger as he read whistled and laughed. He was so happy over something he gave Dove threepence.

1.2: If the British went by land, they showed one lantern, but if the British went by boat, they showed two.

Chapter 2

2.1: Rab decides to leave Boston because there would be fighting before the week was out and he intended to be in it. Then he had to report at Lexington. Well Johnny took this news badly. Johnny felt that Rab deserted him.

Chapter 4

4.2: Johnny had to tell Robert Newman, the sexton of the Christ Church, to hang two lanterns in the church steeple.


Unit 11: Yankee Doodle

Chapter 1

1.1: The first battle occurs in Lexington. The British had more men than the Minute Men.

Chapter 3

3.1: The British had left Boston and went to the country one month earlier. The ones that stayed, hid.

Chapter 4

4.1: Johnny's widow peak was a detail that convinced Lavinia to find out about Johnny's past. Also the way he walked like his mother.

Chapter 5

5.1: Johnny can be a boy in time of peace, a man in time for war, and get awat with it because he is sixteen years old.


Unit 12: A Man Can Stand Up

Chapter 1

1.1: Johnny made himself look like a wounded British soldier. He lay down and rolled in the muck of the tanning shed. Tore his jacket on a nail and pulled off a button. He put mud on his face; pricked his wrist, and smeared his cheek with blood.

Chapter 2

2.1: The British are regular army. They had good guns, ammuniton, canons, and ships.

Chapter 3

3.1: The men had formed a thin pathetic line, a handful of farmers to resist the march of seven hundred British regulars. It was so hopeless and so brave, you might laugh. You might also cry.

Chapter 5

5.1: Rad was shot and bled to death.

5.2: Too many things have happened for Johnny to still be ashamed of his hand. He played an important role in the war.

5.3: Johnny feels he is no longer a boy, but a young adult. He knows what responsiblity he needs to take and will stick to it. He knows his deformed hand can be fixed and he will be in the fight for freedom, he will stand up.